Artist: VA
Title: Archives GRM
Label: INA GRM (FRANCE)
Format: 5CD
Price: $55.00
Catalog #: INA 1030
Deluxe 5CD box issued in conjunction with the 30 history history of the INA GRM in France. The roots and historical development of musique concrete and experimental electronic/tape music -- packaged in stunning form. 5 jewel cased CDs in a heavy duty box, featuring 101 tracks (many previously unreleased, others never released on INA before; most are edits to some degree), with an 80 page booklet of historical photos. Essays by Jean-Christophe Thomas, Regis Renouard Lariviere, Christian Zanesi,
Daniel Teruggi, Yann Geslin & Francoise Bayle, plus detailed notes on every track. Provides a captivating overview of decades of breakthrough developments in sound/architexture, and is a totally essential artifact in its own right.
"To mark and celebrate the thirty years of the INA, the GRM has chosen to bring together an exceptional set of five compact discs, illustrating some of its most remarkable musical archives. These original works, which are often previously unpublished or have been dispersed throughout a host of other publications, are important because of the originality and audacity they testify to in the second half of the 20th century. Some listeners will be pleased to see that there are a number of illustrious composers here who, in the 1950s, frequented the studio of Pierre Schaeffer, and others will discover numberous musicians whose enthusiasm enabled this innovative musical genre to last throughout the following decades. The Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, whose mission to conserve and diffuse audio-visual heritage has never been more active, is able to demonstrate with these CDs the full extent of its extraordinarily rich musical collections. The INA is steadfastly building up the future of your memory." -- Emmanuel Hoog, INA Chairman
CD1: "Les visiteurs de l'aventure concrete" (early works by "the visitors of the concrete adventure"); CD2: "l'art de l'etude" ("The art of study"); CD3: le son en nombre ("Sound in numbers"); CD4: "Le temps du temps reel" (all works produced via Syter); CD5: le GRM sans le savoir ("The GRM without knowing it"). Featured artists (and year of work included): Andre Hodeir ("Jazz et Jazz" from 1951, "the very first mixed work in history"), Pierre Boulez (Etudes from 1951), Jean Barraque (1951-54), Darius Milhaud (1954), Roman Haubenstock-Ramati 1957), Henri Sauguet (1957), Edgar Varese ("Deserts", "Interpolation 1", 1954), Andre Boucourechliev (1959), Claude Ballif (1962), Iannis Xenakis ("Concret PH", 1958), Oliver Messiaen (the legendary unreleased collaboration wtih Pierre Henry, "Timbres Durees", from 1952), Pierre Schaeffer ("L'Etude Pathetique", from the concrete debut of 1948) , Monique Rollin (1952), Michel Philippot, Philippe Arthuys (1955), Luc Ferrari (various works from 1958), Francois-Bernard (1959), Mireille Chamass-Kyrou (1960), Ivo Malec (1961), Philippe Carson (1962), Akira Tamba (1962), Beatriz Ferreyra (1960), Alain Savouret (1969 & 1985), Francois Bayle ("It." -- excerpt of L'experience Acoustique, from 1970, with Robert Wyatt!), Dieter Kauffman (1987), Jean-Claude Risset (1984) Denis Smalley (1987), Gilles Racot, (1984-5) Yann Geslin (1981-2), Benedict Mailliard (1984-5), Francois Dhomont (1989), Benard Parmegiani ("Indicatif Roissy", the classic 4 second work from 1971, plus other early/short "sound designs"), Ake Parmerud, Denis Dufour, Horacio Vaggione, Gilles Racot, Daniel Teruggi, Ramon Gonzales-Arroyo, Michel Redolfi, Michel Portal, Boris Vian (1962), Robert Cohen-Solal (1968), Guy Reibel (1971), Edgardo Canton (1967), Christian Zanesi (1996).